Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review
Ray Tracing Hogwarts Legacy
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Hogwarts Legacy, with its captivating recreation of the wizarding world, offers ray tracing features that enhance the visual experience, though perhaps not to the extent of a full path tracing implementation. Ray-traced reflections add a captivating sheen to the grand halls of Hogwarts, bringing the marble floors and shimmering surfaces to life. Ray-traced shadows deepen the atmosphere, casting realistic shadows from every student, creature, and spell. And with ray-traced ambient occlusion, the interplay of light and shadow is rendered with greater nuance and detail. While Hogwarts Legacy may not be a full ray tracing showcase, these effects still contribute to a more immersive and visually impressive experience.
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Then in our last raytracing title, Hogwarts, we see the 5090 coming in with 7% worse performance than the RTX 4090, and while we did retest, I guess it shows how fast the 5090 is, and that CPU-wise, even on a test like this, our 9800X3D isn’t able to keep up at this resolution.
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Luckily as we move up to 4K, which is where you’re realistically playing with this card, we now see, thanks to a 16% improvement over the 4090, a framerate of 65 FPS, so just over that threshold that gamers crave, though again, even with this increase, and a 140% lead over the 7900 XTX, the 1% low figures so suffer, though thankfully, that’s more of a widespread game issue as we can see across multiple GPUs in our chart.